CULTURE WAR PART 05: A HANDY COMPARATIVE GUIDE BETWEEN PROGRESSIVES & CONSERVATIVES

As we have learned, there are two sides of the
on-going, half-century old ‘culture war:’ The left-leaning secular progressives
(sometimes called ‘liberals’), versus the right-leaning traditional values
conservative (also known as ‘social conservatives’). The secular progressives
dominate our political parties, mainstream media, academia, big business, some
parts of the judiciary, and the entertainment industry. Many mainstream people
and some cultural leaders subscribe, at least in part, to the traditional
values side.

This handy guide will help distinguish between
progressives (P) and conservatives (C).

1.
Worldview

P: Concerned with economic
material side of man;

C: Concerned with the
entire person, including moral & spiritual.

2.
Identity

P: Identity Politics;

C: Character (Martin
Luther King Jr., in his epic 1963 speech, I Have A Dream, said he wanted
his children to be judged by content of their character, not the colour of
their skin).

3.
Size of Government

P: Large government is the
solution (Obama);

C: Large government is the
problem (Reagan).

4.
Human Nature

P: Human nature is good;

C: Human nature is good
& evil, hence the need for ‘checks’ and ‘balances’ in government.

Equality/Inequality: ’The
worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal’ - Aristotle

Deficits: ’We don’t have a
trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar
debt because we spend too much’ — Ronald Reagan

Capitalism vs. Socialism: ’The
inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent
virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries’ - Winston Churchill

Social Justice: ’The
idea of social justice, as Friedrich Hayek observed long ago, is a mirage, a
social fiction of the left. There is no ‘society’ that distributes income unfairly, and no ‘society’ that could make the distribution just. Social justice is the rationale
for a political elite to appropriate what others have earned and distribute it
to their own constituencies to increase their power’ - David Horowitz

‘The Strange Age?’ Consider the following:

•Good is called evil and evil is called
good;

•The exception is the rule;

•Fantasy is chosen over facts;

•Rhetoric is deemed more valuable than
reality;

•Charisma is cherished more than character;

•Style is preferred over substance;

•Minority rules - and to hell with the
welfare of the majority;

•Individual rights trump community
welfare;

•The abnormal is declared normal and normal is treated like a
disease;

•Intolerance has now become the ‘new
tolerance’ & classic tolerance is relegated to the museum;

•Nonsense is now the new ‘common sense,’ while
true ‘common sense’ is beaten senseless, survives on a life-support machine,
and the knob is about to be turned off.

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